Topic of discussion of the panel: Was the outbreak of the Great War in August 1914 a failure of diplomacy, or a failure of foresight on the part of political and military elites, who went to war open-eyed but miscalculated consequences?

Dominic Lieven is a Research Professor at the University of Cambridge (Senior Research Fellow -- Trinity College) and a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications include: Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 (2009), Empire: The Russian Empire and its Rivals (2003), Nicholas II (1993), The Aristocracy in Europe 1815/1914 (1992), Russia's Rulers under the Old Regime (1989), and Russia and the Origins of the First World War (1983). He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first-class honours in 1973 and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard in 1973/4. Subsequently, he has been inter alia a Humboldt Fellow in Germany, and a visiting professor at Tokyo University and Harvard University.

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